Revolutionizing Sports Analytics: Powering Up with BI Auditor for Game-Changing Insights.
A success story of using Power BI and BI Auditor to transform data culture and analytics processes.
The Challenge
The leadership of a sports company aimed to embrace a more data-centric approach by making Power BI their primary analytics tool. They undertook a reconstruction of their reporting system, introducing numerous new reports to enhance insights and contribute value to their operations. However, they encountered challenges in realizing their objectives:
There was a need to boost the adoption of Business Intelligence (BI) among their users, who were accustomed to traditional reporting methods and were not well-versed in the new technology.
Effectively measuring the success of their BI initiatives and gauging the utilization of their reports posed a significant challenge.
The built-in Power BI usage analysis proved inadequate and constrained for their specific requirements.
The Solution
The company decided to use BI Auditor, a module that allows users to monitor and analyze user activities, engagement, and report usage in Power BI. BI Auditor consists of three key parts: reports usage analysis, user behavior, and BI costs optimization. The module collects all the historical usage data from the first day of use, which enables the client to track and compare trends and patterns over time. With BI Auditor, the company was able to:
- Gain full control over their reporting environment and understand how their users interact with the reports.
- Overcome the limitations of the in-built Power BI analytics and access more detailed and customisable data.
- Identify the areas where their BI team needed to focus and improve their service and support.
- Enhance their BI adoption strategy by adding real numbers and evidence to their desired outcomes.
The Benefits
Full Control Over Reporting: The implementation of the BI Auditor module established complete control over company reporting, empowering the management to make informed decisions.
Overcoming Power BI Limitations: All limitations associated with in-built Power BI analytics were overcome, providing a more robust and versatile analytics environment.
Targeted BI Team Focus: The BI team gained precise insights into areas requiring attention, allowing for more efficient allocation of resources and efforts.
Enhanced BI Adoption: The BI adoption initiative received a significant boost as real numbers were incorporated into the envisioned results, providing a tangible measure of success.
After using BI Auditor for a while, the company saw significant results in their BI transformation. They managed to:
- Increase the BI adoption rate by 35% and the user satisfaction by 40%.
- Reduce the BI costs by 25% by optimizing the report usage and performance.
- Improve the data quality and governance by ensuring the reports are accurate, consistent, and up-to-date.
The Future Development
The company is planning to add BI Hub Portal to their BI stack to further simplify and enhance their analytics environment. BI Hub Portal will help them to:
- Empower their users to make better and faster decisions based on data and insights.
- Organize and manage all their BI tools and reports in one place.
- Preserve and share all the reports knowledge, including definitions, calculations, and data sources, dynamically and easily.
- Build chat-like BI processes to automate the report requesting and editing system, which will save time and resources for both the BI team and the end-users.